Reflective Barry Diller Laments His City of Inbred Spawn

After decades of sprinkling his virile mogul seed on lots all over town, cultivating muscular sprouts along the lines of Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dawn Steel and others, inveterate media pollenator Barry Diller offered these wrenching words about Hollywood at this week’s D6 Technology conference in Carlsbad: “It’s a community that’s so inbred it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.” Ouch. He must have forgotten about decidedly toothless Sahara director Breck Eisner, whose father Michael got his start under Diller during his years at ABC. That said, we weep for the third generation, whose inability to type or mouse-click with their beflippered limbs will sink Diller’s digital empire once and for all. [Fortune, Photo Credit: Getty Images]